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so are you returning the promo-copy now??? :D

Hell no :-)

http://drop-d.ie/article.php?article_id=905

My review for http://www.drop-d.ie. Enjoy!

Yep. Where OCFA sounded over-polished and indistinct, everything is clear and distinguished.

That retro single download idea is good, but imagine the amount of shite involved in licensing that much material from Universal.

Well, I got the review copy regardless, and have sent the review to my editor: should be up in the next few days.

MY GOD! What an album :D Worth every penny upon release, and probably your firstborn for Clowns Galore alone. This is up there with SP-YF and Troublegum.

Got the review copy. Review forthcoming.

Got the review copy today after much back-and-forth with the press department regarding allegedly posing as a journo… Regardless, I love it to bits and a review is forthcoming!

Cleared up the misunderstanding with the press department. Allowed keep the review copy after all, review due next week on http://www.drop-d.ie!
Judging from what we heard on MySpace and on the taster vid, I can honestly say, this is gonna be good :)

Out on a Limb… Only have stuff by Rest or Giveamanakick, have yet to review them, and it may be a bit late to get the review for GAMAK’s latest. Which I enjoyed immensely, though the first album always has a place in my heart. :-)

That too. :-)

P.S.: If anyone, ANYONE AT ALL, wants to take that Chiodos album off my hands, please, by all means. :-D

The record labels complain about declining sales and then foist shite like that upon us. And they wonder why they’re going to Hell.
The effort they put into these plastic pop posers should be going into honest-to-God, good old-fashioned music.

Actually, just reading the post now, it does seem as though I’m posing as a journo. :-)
My bad: “In my guise” was not the best choice of words by a country mile…
The lesson is I’m no longer young enough to be an enthusiastic fanboy now, I’m a writer, and should conduct myself as such.

They don’t even have that anymore! Just mounds of Death Magnetic.
And very cheap T-shirts, mwahahahahah…

Yeah, guess I’ll just put this one down to inexperience.

To Mikehell, if he’s reading: Sorry man, I meant absolutely no disrespect. I shall wait with bated breath until March 23rd. (Best 21st-birthday present ever, by the way! :-))

By way of curiosity, anyone reading this, please check out my articles and let me know what you think.

Actually, of all places, I found an Isis single in Zavvi, Cork!

So that’s what leads me to believe it could be feasible.

Zavvi stocks CD singles, that’s also dead.

There is nowhere that sells CD singles in a prominent way, say in chart formation, anymore, so it’s a hard one.
Would a limited-edition release be counted by ChartTrack et al?

:-)

I don’t. My copy hasn’t arrived yet and I’m to return the review copy as soon as I get it.
The MySpace page is streaming the full version of The Head That Tried To Strangle Itself and it is a belter, by my reckoning, it should be a single or E.P. lead track.

Hello WoMbles,

For having posted confirmation of receiving a copy of Crooked Timber on here, I have been asked to return my copy.

I realise in my last post on this thread, I came off as something of a blagger, but I would like to state that I intended no wrongdoing whatsoever, and had absolutely NO intention of harming the band that I have loved and identified with for as long as I can remember, and whose music has soundtracked many intensely personal moments of my life.

Furthermore, to confirm that I actually do write for http://www.drop-d.ie, here are links to articles I have written:
Chiodos review: http://www.drop-d.ie/article.php?article_id=868
For Ruin interview: http://www.drop-d.ie/article.php?article_id=858
I’ll Eat Your Face interview: http://www.drop-d.ie/article.php?article_id=851

I’d like to apologise to the press department at Global Music for any misunderstanding that may have occurred, and to the other WoMbles, and the boys themselves.

Mike McGrath-Bryan

Thing is, look at CD Singles. Do you see very many? They’re a great promo, but how many shops are going to stock them at this juncture. Digital sucks, but it’s the only real way around it.

Ah, okay. Just got onto CMM, in my guise as a journalist for http://www.drop-d.ie (CHECK IT OUT) am due to receive a copy soon. :)

Happy days.

The band mentioned recording B-Side material during the sessions for Crooked Timber. Interestingly, Enjoy the Struggle is slated for a single release, so chances are good. :)

People and their labels.

BKYFA… how did you get the alb?

Punk Metal?

I like postal trades too, but it seems to work for Ash to the point where Ash donated their own personal bootlegs, even their recent retro gigs at the Astoria.

Aw, the first snippet (Enjoy the Struggle?) on that vid is fucking brilliant! Let’s see a full streaming track?

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Take it easy mate, your post’s only been up a couple of hours ;)

Sorry! (gets all sheepish)

Just excited about that idea… Wouldn’t a shared T? archive just rule though?

Anyone? C’mon, this is a great way of cataloguing the nightly bodies of work that discographies and time will end up forgetting!

That’s deadly. Someone in TV land has great tastes!

I was over on The Ash Files, which is a forum for Ash fans (natch) to upload and download bootlegs and share them. There is an absolute wealth of stuff available from all stages of Ash’s career, gigs, sessions, B-sides, demos, etc., including stuff contributed by the band themselves (check the Tokyo Blitz DVD rip!). Check it out at ashfiles.com.

Which led me to think. With Therapy?’s 20th anniversary due up, perhaps we here at the Wall ought to share the love of the boys in black by erecting a similar monument? There is 20 years of gigs, radio sessions, demos, B-sides that aren’t readily available, and always a demand here for them, so perhaps a project along similar lines? Anyone want to get involved?

On a tangent:
In the making of Babyteeth article Andy wrote, he mentioned he still has an amazing live version of Animal Bones.

Perhaps Rene or Sarah could coerce him into letting them post it as a download?